Amazing. This year’s tally increases the cumulative total to $3.7 million, and it's the second consecutive year the game has topped the $500,000 mark.
This year’s amount takes the cumulative total to $3,715,800. The game has been a fundraiser only since 2005. It is the second consecutive year the game has topped half a million dollars.
“It’s a pretty unique year,” said Pete Meadows, whose father Mike helped found the pickup football game in 1990 in his Medina back yard. “When you see my daughter’s name, the big thing is it’s emotional, but I want my daughter’s name to live on. A lot of times, when you have a stillborn, it’s talked about, but there is no legacy. We built a legacy with my daughter’s name. It’s really special.”
Pete Meadows has been through his personal challenges; he has survived after being diagnosed with oligodendroglioma, a type of brain cancer, in 2020. His daughter’s legacy lives beyond the game: The Gianna Rae Fund for Oligodendroglioma raises money to fight back. “You look at everyone’s jersey; it’s my daughter’s name,” said Pete, who always is more about pride for his daughter than pity for his own diagnosis more than two years ago.“We were probably about $100,000 off going into the last three days,” Mike Meadows said. “I told my boys , ‘I don’t think we’re going to hit it.’ Then all of sudden, out of the blue, an anonymous donor gave $15,000. Then another Turkey Bowler – Al Melchiorre – gave $25,000.
The family has the details down for fans, including setting up a basket of hand warmers near a sign touting the Turkey Bowl and it mission: “Always give back.” About 80 banners line the long brick wall of
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